A Modern Parents' Guide to Nursery Rhymes Because It's Two O'Clock in the Morning and You Can't Remember "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" - Over 70 Classic Rhymes

by Griffin, Jennifer

• ISBN13: 9781523512355
• ISBN10: 1523512350
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-03-29
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

Summary

Because it’s two o'clock in the morning and you can’t remember “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”

Once upon a time, every parent knew Little Jack Horner, Wee Willie Winkie, and Little Miss Muffet. Now you will, too, with this crash course on timeless pleasures of Mother Goose and beyond. It features more than 70 poems, lullabies, rounds, and riddles, from classics like “Hey Diddle Diddle,” to newer songs like “The Wheels on the Bus,” too wonderful non-English versus including “Pío, Pío, Pío,” the sweet yet dramatic Chilean ditty about chickens. Plus, exactly how to perform the intricate finger ballet known as “Itsy Bitsy Spider.” Includes downloadable recordings.

 

Author Biography

Jennifer (“soft and white”) Griffin is the author of Humpty Who? and the mother of two. As a Jennifer—the most common name of her generation— she has been obsessed with names her whole life. She and her husband live in New York City with their son, Luke (“worshipful”), and daughter, Josephine (“God adds”). 

Table of Contents

Featured nursery rhymes include:
ABC
Alice the Camel
Alouette
A Tisket, A Tasket
Baa, Baa, Black Sheet
Clean Up
Do Your Ears Hang Low?
Down by the Station
Fai Dodo
Frere Jacques
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
If All the Raindrops were Lemon Drops and Gumdrops
If You're Happy and You Know It
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Les Petites Marionettes
London Bridge
Lullaby and Good Night
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Oh Mr. Sun
Old McDonald
Open, Shut Them
Pio Pio Pio
Pop Goes the Weasel
Rock-a-Bye Baby
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Shoo Fly
Sing a Song of Sixpence
Skip to My Loo
The Green Grass Grows All Around
The Noble Duke of York
The Wheels on the Bus
This is the Way We Wash Our Clothes
This Old Man
Three Blind Mice
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star